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AI for Good: Global Impact Editorial ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 1 No. 2, 2020 AI for Good: Global impact Editorial ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 1 AI for Good Global Summit: Now stronger than ever Houlin Zhao ITU Secretary‑General J Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ITU continues to draw upon enormous potential to accelerate expertise from the AI for Good progress on all 17 of the United Global Summit community Nations Sustainable Development and has launched an AI for Goals. Good Webinar Series delving into promising use cases of AI in Every year, we see progress healthcare, smart mobility, food across the world. But so much supply, gender inclusivity and more can be done. environmental global chal‑ lenges, including how to com‑ This continuous That’s why ITU joins forces with bat COVID‑19. approach is partners each year to put on the allowing us to AI for Good Global Summit. In this edition of ITU News broaden the Magazine, you will find a range Now in its fourth year, the Summit of useful expert insights on how AI for Good has gone virtual due to COVID‑19 AI is being leveraged responsibly movement travel restrictions. It is now all year, to improve lives — and how ITU is wider than always online. weaving relevant AI for Good ini‑ tiatives into its work to ensure our ever before. This continuous approach is Union is doing all it can to seize allowing us to broaden the AI the opportunities at hand. Houlin Zhao for Good movement wider than ever before. Contents ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 2 AI for Good: Global impact Editorial 1 AI for Good Global Summit: Now stronger than ever Houlin Zhao ITU Secretary‑General Cover photo: Shutterstock AI for Good Global Summit 4 Follow us at the AI for Good Global Summit 5 2020 AI for Good Global Summit to scale AI‑powered problem solving for global impact 9 International standards for an AI‑enabled future ISSN 1020–4148 ITU News caught up with Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU itunews.itu.int Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, to learn more about Six issues per year the latest ITU standards projects addressing AI and Machine Copyright: © ITU 2020 Learning and the value of the AI for Good Global Summit. Editor-in-Chief: Matthew Clark 13 AI for Good — Time to move the needle Art Editor: Christine Vanoli Editorial Assistant: Angela Smith By Fred Werner Head of Strategic Engagement, ITU Standardization Bureau Editorial office: Tel.: +41 22 730 5723/5683 E-mail: [email protected] 18 Join the global initiative on ‘AI and Data Commons’ Mailing address: International Telecommunication Union Place des Nations AI for Good goes digital CH–1211 Geneva 20 (Switzerland) 20 COVID‑19: How Korea used innovative technology and Disclaimer: AI to flatten the curve Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not engage ITU. The des- By ITU News ignations employed and presentation of mate- rial in this publication, including maps, do not 24 COVID‑19: Where are the self‑driving cars imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever and trucks? on the part of ITU concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or concerning By ITU News the delimitations of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or of certain 27 Tech startups join AI for Good Innovation Factory with live products does not imply that they are endorsed pitching or recommended by ITU in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. By ITU News All photos are by ITU unless specified otherwise. Contents ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 3 AI for sustainable development 31 Africa’s AI community set to light up the AI for Good Global Summit By Alexander Tsado and Nick Bradshaw Alexander Tsado, Advisor for Alliance4AI and Nick Bradshaw, Co‑Founder of AI Expo Africa 34 How can we solve the problems of gender bias in AI? Experts weigh in. By ITU News 37 COVID‑19: How can AI help fight hunger and food insecurity? By ITU News 42 How AI can help save the planet By ITU News 46 What the United Nations is doing to leverage AI for Good By ITU Secretary‑General Houlin Zhao AI and health care 50 Reducing the global healthcare shortfall using AI By ITU News 54 The opportunities and challenges of introducing AI to improve health care By Chaesub Lee Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau 57 Responsibly unlocking the potential of data in health By Stefan Germann and Ulla Jasper Stefan Germann, CEO and Ulla Jasper, Policy Officer, Fondation Botnar AI for Good Global Summit ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 4 Follow us at the AI for Good Global Summit AI for Good Global Summit ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 5 Shutterstock 2020 AI for Good Global Summit to scale AI‑powered problem solving for global impact J Ten years remain to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leaders in AI and humanitarian action will convene at the 2020 AI for Good Global Summit with strong intent to Three editions of the AI ensure that “AI for Good” solutions achieve a scale matching that of the for Good Global Summit ambitions captured by the SDGs. have recognized the significance of the The AI for Good Global Summit Now in its fourth edition, this leap from AI promise is the leading United Nations year’s AI for Good Global Summit to global impact. platform for inclusive dialogue on is being held online all year, AI. The summit identifies practical and will continue to connect applications of AI to accelerate AI innovators with public and Houlin Zhao progress towards the SDGs and private‑sector decision‑makers ITU Secretary-General builds collaboration to assist in the interests of stimulating the these applications in achieving discovery and delivery of “AI for global impact. Good” solutions for all. Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #AIforGood AI for Good Global Summit ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 6 The 2020 summit is co‑or‑ “Three editions of the AI for Good Speakers ganized by the International Global Summit have recognized Telecommunication Union (ITU) the significance of the leap from Over 100 speakers are expected and early confirmations include: — the United Nations special‑ AI promise to global impact,” ized agency for information said ITU Secretary‑General ` Yoshua Bengio — Founder and Scientific and communication technol‑ Houlin Zhao. “We see renewed Director, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA); ACM Turing Award ogies (ICTs) — and the XPRIZE resolve within the AI for Good Winner 2018 Foundation, in partnership with community to create the condi‑ Switzerland, the Association for tions necessary to make this leap ` Anousheh Ansari — CEO, XPRIZE Foundation; Space Ambassador Computing Machinery (ACM) and accelerate progress towards and a wide variety of sister United the achievement of the SDGs.” ` Stuart Russell — Professor, UC‑Berkeley; Nations agencies. Adjunct Professor, UC‑San Francisco; Author of “Human Compatible AI” “With only 10 years remaining to The 2017 summit marked the achieve the United Nations SDGs, ` Stella Ndabeni‑Abrahams — beginning of a global dialogue AI is sure to be an invaluable tech‑ Minister of Communications and Telecommunications, South Africa on the potential of AI to act as a nology to help accomplish these force for good. The action‑ori‑ critical goals that are designed ` Francesca Rossi — IBM AI Ethics Global ented 2018 and 2019 summits to ensure a more sustainable Leader gave rise to numerous “AI for and equitable future for all,” said ` Pascale Fung — Professor, Department Good” projects including an XPRIZE CEO Anousheh Ansari. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, “AI for Health” Focus Group led “At XPRIZE, our mission is to Hong Kong University of Science & by ITU and the World Health facilitate radical breakthroughs Technology; Director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAiRE) Organization, an ITU Focus Group for the benefit of humanity, on “AI for Autonomous and and our ongoing collabora‑ ` Shwetak Patel — Washington Research Assisted Driving”, and an open tion on the AI for Good Global Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science and framework for collaboration in Summit is one way we hope Engineering and Electrical Engineering “AI Commons”. to accelerate safe and ethical at the University of Washington; ACM development of AI and machine Computing Prize Winner 2018 learning technology.” ` Maggie Carter — Principal, Disaster The pursuit of Response Program, Amazon Web global impact The summit attracts a unique Services (AWS) cross‑section of AI experts from ` Elizabeth Bramson‑Bodreau — CEO, MIT The pursuit of global impact will industry and academia, global Technology Review be the defining feature of the business leaders, Heads of United ` Vicki Hanson — CEO, ACM 2020 summit. Nations agencies, ICT ministers, non‑governmental organizations, ` Anja Kaspersen — Director, United civil society and artists. Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs ` Lucas di Grassi — Formula E Racing Champion; CEO, Roborace; United Nations Clean Air Ambassador Please visit the summit website for more information on the latest speakers, breakthrough sessions, solution tracks and demos. AI for Good Global Summit ITU News MAGAZINE 02/2020 7 Generating “AI for Good” Cutting edge R&D projects and breakthroughs Cutting edge AI research The summit is designed to and development and AI inspired generate “AI for Good” projects performances from ground able to be enacted in the near breaking artists and musicians term, guided by the summit’s will be featured as virtual live multi‑stakeholder and inter‑dis‑ demos now that the Summit has ciplinary audience. It also aims to gone digital. ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technolo‑ gies and equitable access to their benefits. Sponsors The 2020 summit aims to gener‑ ate AI breakthroughs in climate and environmental action, the elimination of hunger, gender Organization and equality, health care, smart and partnership safe mobility, the preservation of cultural heritage and the pro‑ tection of access to trustworthy The 2020 summit is kindly information.
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